Editor’s Blog: Cool Pants, Honus Visits Braves, PSA Videos

What do you do with them? They’re not exactly a thrilling display piece, unless they’re Ty Cobb’s or something. But…I’m making an exception for these.

The Baseball Hall of Fame needed an artifact when Eric Young stole six bases in a game to tie a Major League record back in 1996. His dirt-covered pinstripe trousers are the perfect artifact to illustrate what an amazing feat that is.
The perfect opportunity came with the Hall’s “One for the Books” exhibit.

Those are pants worth owning. Or putting on display…which the Hall did on the third floor, preserved dirt and all.

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It was show-and-tell time in the Atlanta Braves’ dugout recently. Long-time collector Keith Olbermann brought his T206 Honus Wagner to the ballpark so some fellow collectors and baseball history buffs in and around the team could get a close look at one. Luckily these days, players seem to have more appreciation for the game’s history than they did a few years ago.

Rich is the editor and founder of Sports Collectors Daily. A broadcaster and writer for more than 30 years and a collector for even longer than that, he's usually typing something somewhere. Type him back at [email protected].